[CPEO-MEF] White Phosphorous at Ravenna (OH) ammo plant

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Explosives may be floating into creek
Mesh to catch flow of ammo in stream at arsenal

By Bob Downing
Akron Beacon Journal (OH)
October 16, 2007

The Army says it intends to install wire mesh barriers across a Portage 
County creek to keep explosives from moving downstream at the closed 
Ravenna Army Ammunition Plant.

The action, requested by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, comes 
after an incident June 19, when a white phosphorous rifle grenade exploded.

No one was injured after the grenade went off at the edge of a one-time 
dumping area called Rocket Ridge that sits next to Sand Creek and is 
near the center of the 21,419-acre complex in eastern Portage and 
western Trumbull counties.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/10567071.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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